Viola Davis Quotes
It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.
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I'm very comfortable being naked. It's one of my favorite things to do.
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When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
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There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
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I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.
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Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
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It's hard to be in the shadow of a Beyonce.
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I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.
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Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You're never as good as you'd like to be. So there's always something to hope for.
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I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me.
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I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.
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After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.
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Screaming is hard after a while.
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I got out of grad school in 2000. I was about 26 years old. I've always said that I was late to acting because I didn't really start doing it in a focused way until I was in my early 20s.
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Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.
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Life is short, I have no time for drama.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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No - I'm quite calm inside during the game for most of the time - not 100%, but generally very calm.
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It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.
